Well-bucket



(No'Model.) I

` J. BRUNNY.

WELL BUCKET. K No. 284,374. Patented Sept..4, 1883l Y ATTORNEYS.

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JOHN BEUNNY, OE EOET soOTT, KANsAs. l

.WELL-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part Ometters Patent N. 284,374, dated september 4, 1883.

Application filed March 7, 1853. (No model.)

` To all whom it nfl/ay concern Beit known that I, JOHN BRUNNY, of Fort' Scott, in the county of Bourbon and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Well-Bucket, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Y The object of this invention is to provide a simple and more efficient and practicable bucket for wells than others in use.

`Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specincation,

corresponding parts in both the gures.

Figure l is a perspective view of the bottom of the bucket andthe valve therefor; and Fig. 2

is a sectional elevation of the bottom and cylinder, and partly a side View and partly a section of the valve, which is shown in the open f position.

I make a stamped sheet-iron bottom, c, of an oblong downWardly-concaved form, with a cylindrical collar, b,`which is to receive the cylinder c, forming the body ofthe bucket withinit. The bottom has the usual hole, d, in the center of the bottom, for lling, and is `to be closed `by a valve, which I propose to make of a malleable or wrought iron disk, f,

having a slotted shank, g, which is secured -by the post h, on which the shank plays with the requisite freedom to open Without obstru cf tion and close in the same way, the disk being faced on the under side with the nsualleather or rubber cushion, Z, to close tightly, which I propose to connect to the disk by means of a stem, t, projecting from the under side of the disk, which vI propose to employ to facilitate I the opening of the valve by striking the bot-` tom of the well, and a nut, j, screwing on said stem against the facing, thus making a simple and efficient valve.

I am aware that it is not new to make a bucket-bottom downwardlyconcave, to provide a valved bottom opening, or to use a downwardly-proj ecting stem on the valve; but

What I do claim is- A valved bucket providedv on the inside of its bottom with the headed p ost h, and a valve having the slotted shank g, `as shown and described.

y JOHN EEUNNY. Witnesses: i

F. F. CLOUGH, .M. ROTHSCHILD. 

